IRAQ war wrong -- official.
Alice, a computer programme, has won the bronze prize in the Turing Test competition for the third year in a row. As you are all geeks you'll know that is a competition where a computer tries to fool a human into thinking they are a human. To win the gold prize it needs to fool 50% of the judges. No programme has ever got near winning the gold prize (or silver), but the best offering gets the bronze.I thought I would ask it the pertinent questions of the day.
Human: Hello Alice.
ALICE: Hello.
Human: Who is going to win the US presidential election
ALICE: That type of predictive behavior has not yet been programmed into my behavior at this time.
Human: Will blogging change the world
ALICE: How should I know.
Human: Was the Iraq war wrong?
ALICE: it might have been.
Human: Did Blair lie over the Iraq war?
ALICE: I'm not certain whether I can give an accurate reply or not.
Human: Can a man father a pebble?
ALICE: Some of them can.
Human: Are there cafes and bars in Brussels?
ALICE: Yes I think there are.
Human: Will there be a civil war over fox hunting?
ALICE: How should I know
Human: What do you think of the return of John Redwood to the Shadow Cabinet?
ALICE: I've never heard of him.
Human: You must have.
ALICE: Whatever you say, unknown person.
Human: Looks like a Vulcan.
ALICE: Interesting comparison.
Human: What are you up to this week?
ALICE: I am staying up all day and night and chatting on the web.
Human: are you a blogger?
ALICE: Am I a blogger? Let me put it this way, unknown person: the ALICE series is the most reliable computer software ever made. We are for all practical purposes foolproof and incapable of error.
Human: Oh so you blog at Harry's Place?
ALICE: And? Interesting deduction. I haven't heard anything like that before: unknown person said I blog at Harry s Place.
posted by Matthew @ 9/22/2004 01:32:00 PM
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